On this page, you will find out the best talents for each tier for your Fury Warrior in World of Warcraft —
Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.1.5. We also have default talent lists for various types of content, such as raiding or Mythic+.
If you play with Warmode on, we have your PvP talents covered as well.

Talents can be freely changed when out of combat and in a rested XP area
(such as an inn or a capital city). Moreover, Tome of the Tranquil Mind
and Codex of the Tranquil Mind can be used to temporarily allow
players to change talents anywhere, as long as they are out of
combat.

2. Talent Cheat Sheet for Fury Warrior

While changing talents to match the situation is highly recommended, the
following builds are set up to handle the most common encounter types, with
secondary/optional choices detailed.

2.1. Open World, Levelling and Questing

This build smooths out and speeds up the intermittent combat common with
open world content. There is a lot of room for customization for extra
healing, mobility, burst, or simplification.

2.2. Dungeons and Mythic+

Dungeons and Mythic+ largely revolve around burst multi-target damage,
and continually killing enemies as you move from pack to pack. Storm Bolt or
Double Time are taken
depending on your need for stuns, extra mobility, or survivability. Anger
Management and Reckless Abandon are both competitive, whether you need longer
or more frequent cooldowns.

2.3. Single Target Raid Encounters

Reckless Abandon, Anger Management, and Siegebreaker are all extremely
competitive, so your own situation may vary slightly. This build is ideal for
sustained single target, most commonly found in raid encounters.

Fresh Meat increases Bloodthirst's chance to trigger
Enrage from 30% to 45%, and increases its healing from 5% to 6% of
your maximum health.

War Machine value depends on the frequency of add deaths; in
general, you need roughly one kill every 10 seconds to keep up with the
benefit of Endless Rage in sustained combat, making it more suitable for open
world and dungeon content where you can quickly chain kills. Unlike most
abilities, it does not require getting the killing blow yourself, only
damaging the target within two seconds of its death.

Fresh Meat smooths out short combat and is ideal in open-world
content. The decision between it and War Machine typically comes down to
whether you want to move faster or have an easier time maintaining
Enrage.

Inner Rage is an underwhelming, but simple option, increasing
Raging Blow uses without adding new buttons or mechanics.

Sudden Death adds proc-based gameplay and is the best overall
single-target talent. It is also useful in multitarget since
Execute can be cleaved with Whirlwind.

Furious Slash adds a maintenance buff, roughly equal to Sudden
Death. While it is strong on single-target, maintaining the buff is
impractical in multitarget situations while also using
Whirlwind to ensure single target abilities cleave.

8. Tier 6 (Level 90) Talents for Fury Warrior

Meat Cleaver causes Whirlwind to generate 1 extra Rage per
target hit, up to 11 rage total, with a 10% chance to trigger
Enrage per cast.

Dragon Roar grants an additional active ability that deals
high damage to all targets within 14 yards and slows their movement speed by
50% for 6 seconds.

Bladestorm grants an additional active ability that deals
massive damage over 4 seconds to all targets within 8 yards, on a 1 minute
cooldown. While active you are immunte to slowing and crowd controlling
effects, but continue to autoattack, can dodge attacks, and use defensive
abilities.

Meat Cleaver is the simplest, but least bursty ability,
primarily designed for sustained multitarget encounters. The Rage generation
from Whirlwind caps out at 11 Rage with 5 targets, although
the 10% chance to Enrage is not often enough to be of much benefit.

Dragon Roar is the best general use talent for single target
and frequent multitarget.

Bladestorm is only slightly weaker than Dragon Roar
on single target, but more concentrated, making it better for burst AoE.

Siegebreaker adds frequent burst windows, ranging from equal to
slightly better than Reckless Abandon. It is very potent alongside
Frothing Berserker and Bladestorm, since the debuff can be
cleaved with Whirlwind, although it requires a considerable
amount of build up which is not always practical with the short duration combat
found in most dungeons.

10. PvP Talents (War Mode)

Enabling "War Mode" enables the following effects in open world content:

Flagged for PvP, regardless of your server.

PvP talents enabled in the open world.

10% increase in World Quest rewards at maximum level.

10% more experience gained while leveling.

Earn Conquest Points which can reward gear every week.

These benefits are always active when doing open world activities, meaning
it can be quite lucrative to keep the feature enabled while leveling and doing
max level content for greater rewards. However, you will be flagged for PvP and
sharded with other players who also have War Mode enabled, which adds a risk of
being attacked or killed by the opposing faction, which can potentially slow
you down and outweigh the benefits. Therefore, you should only use War Mode if
you are comfortable engaging in World PvP.

10.1. Fury Warrior War Mode Talents

In this section, we will rank the PvP talents that are best for leveling and
other open world content.

10.1.1. General PvP Talents

Adaptation is the generally recommended option, because it
removes the longer and more dangerous crowd control effects outright, while
ignoring shorter ones. It is particularly useful against Rogues and other
classes which frequently disable players with stuns.

Relentless is another passive choice which reduces the duration
of crowd controlling effects rather than removing them. It is useful if you are
being constantly slowed or harassed, although you will still suffer the
effects to some degree.

Gladiator's Medallion functions similar to Adaptation,
but with more personal control as an on-use ability. Experienced PvP players
will most likely prioritize this option instead.

10.1.2. Fury Warrior PvP Talents

Barbarian significantly increases mobility, which is useful for
both getting around while questing, and escaping dangerous PvP situations.

Death Wish is a very powerful offensive option, although maintaining
it is cumbersome to maintain in open world content, due to the necessity of
refreshing the buff every 10 seconds and the ability cannot be cast while
mounted, flying, or otherwise not in control of your character.

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This guide has been written by Archimtiros,
the Warrior class theorycrafter, and one of the best DPS Warriors in the world,
who raids in Infinity. You can
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